Bringing Life To A Case Study

Prior to Semester

1. Choose the Case Study

2. Decide on the main concept to be conveyed

3. Decide on what is the purpose of the story

4. Decide on the key question which will be answered at the end of the story

5. Connect your audience to the story by contextualising the story. Refer to Resources/Technology: Successful Storytelling)

6. Add multimedia to support and embellish the story by illustrating scenes, characters or situations:

1. Find images online or through Creative Commons licensed images:

• Find Creative Commons Images (refer to Resources/Technology)

• Use Trove (refer to Resources/Technology) to search and use over 448 million images, articles and other artefacts from the National Library

• Find non-copyrighted images: http://cft.vanderbilt.edu/2013/01/finding-non-copyrighted-images-for-presentations/

2. Google Slides

• Google Slides is part of the Google Apps suite and works like PowerPoint.

• It is easily shareable and lets you work collaboratively.

• It combines text and images.

3. Google Hangouts On Air

• Use the screensharing option as you record the narration

• Upload the video into your Blackboard course.

4. Sway

• A tool (http://www.sway.com) to combine multiple multimedia resources which can be shared and embedded in your Blackboard course.

5. Explain Everything

• A screencasting app, that lets you drag and drop slides, videos and audio together on your iPad or Android Tablet.

• It is not free but it is very user friendly. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b00ZeszvjP4)

6. Short video formats

• Vine (6 seconds) (http://content.photojojo.com/inspiration/websites/the-ultimate-guide-to-vine/)

(https://media.twitter.com/best-practice/pro-tips-for-using-vine)

Instagram (15 seconds) (http://mashable.com/2013/11/11/creative-instagram-videos/#ln0VskiVWgkj)

Both in short video format and doesn’t require much production, but can still convey a story.

In class

7. Explain to students about digital storytelling to convey the main concept in the case study

8. Direct students to the location of the narration of case study to answer prepared questions on the case study

EXTENSION

9. Ask students to recreate the case study and their worked answer as a digital story in groups of 4 individuals

10. Ask students to compile work in a short Vine or Instagram style video

11. Give students a different case study and ask students to create their own scenes, creating their own storytelling, images, sound or video. Some suggestions can be found on: Common Craft videos https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs-SOeljpyBAvS6fYAR2egw)

or

Lego figures (http://amomwithalessonplan.com/minifigures-storytelling/)

12. Ask students to upload them into Blackboard for comments by their peers for review.